quail
quail1
(复同单或 quails)
quail2
verb
(复同单或 quails)
- a small short-tailed Old World game bird resembling a tiny partridge, typically having brown camouflaged plumage
鹑，鹌鹑 - Family Phasianidae: three genera, in particular Coturnix, and several species, e.g. the widespread migratory common quail (C. coturnix)
雉科：3属，尤指鹌鹑属，数种，如分布广泛的迁徙类西鹌鹑（拉丁名C. coturnix） - a small or medium-sized New World game bird, the male of which has distinctive facial markings
北美鹑 - Family Phasianidae (or Odontophoridae): several genera and many species, including the bobwhite
雉科（或齿鹑科）：数属，多种，包括山齿鹑
- Middle English: from Old French quaille, from medieval Latin coacula (probably imitative of its call)
quail2
verb
- [no obj.]feel or show fear or apprehension
害怕，胆怯
she quailed at his heartless words.
他那无情的话让她感到害怕。
- late Middle English (in the sense 'waste away, come to nothing'): of unknown origin
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